Acronym

Meaning

AAC

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

ABA

Applied Behaviour Analysis

ABC

Antecedent/Behaviour/Consequence

ABS

Aboriginal Head Start

AC

Audit Checklist

ACES

Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

ACT

Autism Community Training

ADA

Aboriginal Delegated Agencies

ADD

Attention Deficit Disorder

ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

ADOS

Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

AEP

Annual Education Plan

AEW

Aboriginal Education Worker

AIDP

Aboriginal Infant Development Program

AO

Administrative Officer

ARBD

Alcohol-Related Birth Defects

ARND

Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder

ASCD

Aboriginal Society for Community Development

ASD

Autism Spectrum Disorder

ASE

Adult Special Education

ASI

Addictions Severity Index

ASIST

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

AST

Area Support Team

ASU

Adolescent Service Unit

ASSW

Aboriginal Student Support Worker

ASW

Aboriginal Support Worker

AYA

Agreement for Young Adults

BAA

Board Authority Authorized

BAC

Blood Alcohol Concentration

BASC

Behaviour Assessment for Children

BC

Behaviour Consultant

BC CASE

BC Council of Administrators of Special Education

BC CEC

BC Council for Exceptional Children

BCAAN

BC Autism Assessment Network

BCCPAC

BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils

BCCPD

BC Coalition of People with Disabilities

BCeSIS

BC enterprise Student Information System

BCPSEA

BC Public School Employers' Association

BCSS

BC Schizophrenia Society

BPI

Behavioural Plan of Intervention

BRI

Behavioural Regulation Index

BRIEF

Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function

BSDW

Band Social Development Worker (federal)

BSP

Behaviour Support Plan

BUBB

Building Understanding of Brain and Behaviour

CAC

Child Advocacy Centre

CAMH

Center for Addictions and Mental Health

CAO

Central Administration Office

CAP

Collaborative Action Plan

CAPC

Community Action Program for Children

CAPSS

Communication, Academic, Physical, Self-determination, Social-emotional

CBM

Curriculum Based Measurement

CBT

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

CCO

Continuing Custody Order

CCSA

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

CCY

Complex Children and Youth

CD

Conduct Disorder

CDBC

Complex Developmental Behaviour Conditions

CDC

Centers for Disease Control
Child Development Centre

CEA

Certificate of Education Assistant
Certified Education Assistant
Classroom Education Assistant

CEC

Council for Exceptional Children

CFCSA

Child, Family and Community Service Act

CFNCS

Caring for Nations Children's Society

CFT

Children’s Friendship Training

CIC

Child in Care

CIFASD

Collaborative Initiative on FASD

CISM

Critical Incident Stress Management

CLBC

Community Living BC

CNS

Central Nervous System

COC

Court Ordered Custody

CPAC

Community Policing Access Centre

CPI

Crisis Prevention Intervention

CPOC

Child’s Plan of Care

CQI

Continuous Quality Improvement

CT

Classroom Teacher

CUPE

Canadian Union of Public Employees

CYCC

Child and Youth Care Counsellor

CYCW

Child and Youth Care Worker

CYMH

Child and Youth Mental Health

CYSN

Child and Youth with Special Needs

DAA

Delegated Aboriginal Child and Family Service Agency

DARE

Drug Abuse Resistance Education

DART

District Assessment of Reading Team

DBT

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
District Behaviour Team

DCD

Developmental Coordination Disorder

DD

Developmental Disability

DDT

Developmental Disability Team

DEYS

Downtown Eastside Youth Service

DI

District Itinerant

DIBELS

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills

DIO

District Itinerant Office

DMM

Dynamic Motivational Model

DPA

Daily Physical Activity

DPAC

District Parent Advisory Council

DPSS

District Plan for Student Success

DRC

District Resource Centre

DRPI

Disability Rights Promotion International

DSM-IV

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 4th edition (1994)

EA

Educational Assistant

EAW

Employment Assistance Worker

ECD

Early Childhood Development

ECE

Early Childhood Education

EDI

Early Development Instrument

EF

Executive Function

EIBI

Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention

ELD

English Literacy Development
English Language Development

EPPD

Employment Program for Persons with Disabilities

ESBT

Extended School Based Team

ESD

English as a Second Dialect

ESL

English as a Second Language

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAS

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

FASD

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

FEN

Family Empowerment Network

FHAN

Fraser Health Assessment Network

FI

French Immersion

fMRI

functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

FNESC

First Nations' Education Steering Committee

FNSW

First Nations' Support Workers

FOI

Freedom Of Information

FOIPOP

Freedom Of Information, Protection Of Privacy

FOIPPA

Freedom Of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

FPW

Family Preservation Worker

FSIQ

Full Scale IQ

GAD

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

GLD

Gifted Learning Disabled

GPDR

Goal-Plan-Do-Review Routine

GSLD

Grants for Students with Learning Disabilities

HCIP

Healthy Choices In Pregnancy

HELP

Human Early Learning Partnership

HFA

High Functioning Autism

HFPDD

High Functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorder

IBI

Intensive Behaviour Intervention

ICEL

Instruction, Curriculum, Environment, Learner

ICM

Integrated Case Management

IDEIA

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act

IDP

Infant Development Program

IEP

Individual Education Plan

IHCAN

Interior Health Children's Assessment Network

IMHT

Island Mental Health Team

INAC

Indian Affairs Canada

IPE

Inter-professional Education

IQ

Intelligence Quotient

IRP

Integrated Resource Package

ISPP

Instructional Support Planning Process

JI

Justice Institute

K

Kindergarten

KW

Key Worker

LA

Learning Assistance

LAT

Learning Assistance Teacher

LC

Learning Center

LD

Learning Disabled

LEIC

Learner Environment Instruction Curriculum

LGBT

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered

LOA

Leave Of Absence

LOL

Laughing out Loud; Lots of Love; Lots of Laughs

LRT

Learning Resource Teacher

LST

Learning Support Teacher

MAPS

Making Action Plans (formerly McGill Action Planning System)

MCFD

Ministry for Children and Family Development

MEIA

Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance (is now MHSD)

MHLS

Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport

MHSD

Ministry of Housing and Social Development

MI

Metacognition Index
Motivational Interviewing

MID

Mild Intellectual Disability

MOE

Ministry Of Education

MOH

Ministry Of Health

MOODLE

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRS

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

NAMI

National Alliance for Mental Illness

NAS

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

NHAN

Northern Health Assessment Network

NID

Non-Instructional Day

NOS

Not Otherwise Specified

NVLD

Non Verbal Learning Disability

OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

ODD

Oppositional Defiance Disorder

OT

Occupational Therapist

PAC

Parent Advisory Council

PARC

Provincial Autism Resource Center

PATH

Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope

PBSP

Positive Behaviour Support Plan

PD

Person with Disabilities

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PDCH

Physical Disabilities/Chronic Health

PDD

Pervasive Developmental Disorder

PDD-NOS

Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

PDE

Prenatal Drug Exposure

PEA

Professional Employees Association

PEN

Personal Education Number

PET

Positron Emission Tomography

pFAS

Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

PHAC

Public Health Agency of Canada

PHAN

Provincial Health Assessment Network

PHSA

Provincial Health Services Authority

PISP

Provincial Integration Support Program

PLC

Professional Learning Communities

PLOP

Present Level Of Performance

PMR

Profound Mental Retardation

POPARD

Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders

POPFASD

Provincial Outreach Program for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

PPVT

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

PR

Personal Record

PRCVI

Provincial Resource Center for the Visually Impaired

PRIS

Pre Referral Intervention Strategies

PSI

Personalized Supports Initiative

PSP

Problem Solving Process

PT

Physiotherapist

PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PWD

Person With Disabilities

QS

Qualified Specialist

QSO

Quality Service Office

RA

Research Assistant

RAD

Reactive Attachment Disorder

RASP

Registry of Autism Service Providers

RCY

Representative for Children and Youth

RDI

Relationship Development Intervention

RFP

Request For Proposals

RIOT

Read Interview Observe Test

RT

Resource Teacher

RTI

Response to Instruction
Response to Intervention

SAD

Seasonal Affective Disorder

SADE

Student Achievement Data Exchange

SAHD

Stay At Home Dads

SASO

Student Administration Systems Operator

SBD

Severe Behaviour Disorder

SBF

School Based Funding

SBO

School Board Office

SBT

School Based Team

SCC

School Completion Certificate

SCCP

Student Completion Certificate Program

SCD

Society for Community Development

SCDP

Supported Child Development Program

SCRC

Student Conduct Review Committee

SEA

Special Education Assistant

SERT

Special Education Resource Teacher

SETA

Special Education Teacher Assistant

SET-BC

Special Education Technology – BC

SEW

Special Education Worker

SFT

Strengthening Families Together

SIB

Self-Injurious Behaviour

SLD

Severely Learning Disabled

SLP

Speech and Language Pathologist
Student Learning Plan

SMI

Serious Mental Illness

SNRW

Special Needs Resource Worker

SOM

Specificity, Objectivity, Measurability

SPC

School Planning Council

SPSS

School Plan for Student Success

SSA

Service Support Assistant

SSC

Schizophrenia Society of Canada

SSEAC

Support Staff Education and Adjustment Committee

SSRS

Social Skills Rating System

SST

Student Support Team

SSW

Student Support Worker

ST

Support Teacher

STA

Special Teaching Assistant

SWIM

Sex Worker Integration Model (formerly FASD Taskforce)

SWIS

Settlement Workers In Schools

SWPBS

School-wide Positive Behavioural Support

T1D

Type 1 Diabetes

TA

Teacher Assistant

TAAI

Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview

TAP

Technology Access Project

TBI

Traumatic Brain Injury

TIC

Teacher In Charge

TLA

Three Letter Acronym

TNA

Training Needs Assessment

TOC

Teacher On Call

TS

Tourette Syndrome

UDL

Universal Design for Learning

VACFSS

Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society

VCHAN

Vancouver Coastal Health Assessment Network

VIHAN

Vancouver Island Health Assessment Network

VSB

Vancouver School Board

YAG

Youth Agreement

YCW

Youth Care Worker

YEAF

Youth Educational Assistance Fund

YFC

Youth and Family Counsellor

YRJ

Your Recovery Journey